Prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 exam with this practical AWS study guide covering cloud fundamentals, core AWS services, security, pricing, governance, and real-world cloud scenarios.
Key Features
- Learn AWS through one company's real business problems, not isolated service descriptions
- Fully updated for the current CLF-C02 exam blueprint, including the revised AWS Free Plan credits model
- Exam Readiness Drills plus linked online quizzes after every chapter
- Get a free PDF eBook with print or Kindle purchase
Book Description
Most AWS certification guides teach services in isolation, leaving you to figure out how they fit together. This guide takes a different approach.
You'll work through the real business needs of Belly Brew Co. Limited, a fictional company, using its challenges to learn why you'd choose one AWS service over another, not just what each one does.
Fully updated for the current CLF-C02 exam blueprint, this guide covers the revised AWS Free Plan credits model, current Lambda runtimes, and recent service renames, details many competing guides still get wrong.
You'll start with cloud fundamentals, virtualization, and AWS global infrastructure, then secure your environment using IAM, IAM Identity Center, and Amazon Cognito. From there, build hands-on experience across storage, networking, compute, and databases, and explore high availability, monitoring, governance, security, and AI/ML services like Rekognition, Polly, and Textract.
The book also covers pricing models, cost optimization, the Cloud Adoption Framework, and the Well-Architected Framework, so you design secure, high-performing, resilient, and cost-efficient solutions.
Each chapter pairs with Exam Readiness Drills and linked online quizzes, so you test what you've learned as you go. Includes a free PDF eBook with purchase.
What you will learn
- Understand cloud concepts, service models, and deployment models
- Explore AWS global infrastructure including Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations
- Secure AWS accounts using IAM, MFA, IAM Identity Center
- Work with core services: S3, VPC, EC2, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, Route 53, and CloudFront
- Apply AI/ML services including Rekognition, Polly, Textract, Athena, and Glue
- Design secure, high-performing, resilient, and cost-efficient solutions using the Well-Architected Framework
Who this book is for
This book is for beginners, students, IT professionals, developers, administrators, managers, analysts, and project managers who want to build foundational AWS cloud knowledge while preparing for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 exam. Ideal for those new to cloud computing, moving into cloud roles, supporting cloud projects, or planning advanced AWS certifications. No prior AWS experience is required, though basic IT knowledge is helpful.
